VirtualPC and qemu to the rescue
Sunday 6 March 2005 ◷ 02:20
When CPUs are fast enough to make you wonder what to do with all that processing power and harddisks are large enough to make you wonder what to do with all that space, virtual PCs come to the rescue. In the work situation I'm trying to float a Debian GNU/Linux webserver into an 8 CPU/8 GB Virtual Server setup, and for fun I'm playing around with qemu (http://www.qemu.org) on Linux. To fill up my disk a little I was already copying every byte I could find onto it, and that included a pile of 3.5" floppies, and Windows 95 and OS/2 Warp installation CDs. And from there it's not that hard to use an image of an MS-DOS 3.3 floppy to install a 1988 version of DOS on a virtual harddisk using qemu. Currently I've vhds to boot MS-DOS 3.3, MS-DOS 6.0, DR-DOS and Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Only OS/2 Warp didn't install, probably because it has some problems recognising the CD-ROM drive, so if I create install floppies from the CD-ROM I can get that to work too. Also for Windows 95 the problem is to load a driver for the CD-ROM. Maybe I'll look into that later. It's fun to run all the old stuff on a modern system, and I've not even bothered to install the accellerator yet...
Gave OS/2 Warp 3 one more shot, but it doesn't get very far. It boots from the boot diskette, we can change that for diskette 1 and press enter, see the graphic installation screen, Please wait... and then the screen stays black. With both diskette and CD option.
rolipe
Thursday 24 March 2005 ◷ 01:15
re: VirtualPC and qemu to the rescue
sam
Friday 25 March 2005 ◷ 12:04
re: VirtualPC and qemu to the rescue
Thanks.
nasty
Tuesday 29 March 2005 ◷ 15:38
re: VirtualPC and qemu to the rescue
that we even bother :-)
i don't use any virtual workspaces but you should check my /etv/fstab with root-loopback devices and inittabs...
i am a N*E*R*D (and not really proud)
ipenburg
Sunday 18 December 2005 ◷ 02:06
re: VirtualPC and qemu to the rescue